Archive for February, 2008
Pork Chops, Mashed Potatoes and Roasted Parsnips
Bit of a mish-mash (geddit?!) tonight as we were trying to use up vegetables from the weekend. We had lots of leftover potatoes, leeks and kale so Fred suggested pork chops with mashed potatoes and the vegetables. I thought it would be more interesting to mix the vegetables up so I did that [...]
Read More..>>Puttanesca
After the elaborateness of last night’s Thai dish, Fred made us a simple puttanesca for dinner this evening. It was delicious and even better because he washed up afterwards too!
Read More..>>Thai Odyssey Part 1 - Sour Orange Curry of Trout and Vegetables
While on holiday last week, I ended up reading a lot of what I call the Big Pink Thai Book by David Thompson. We’ve had the book for a while but I hadn’t read that much of it in the past, which is why I took it on holiday with the intention of reading [...]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken
It has become something of a tradition for us to have roast chicken when we get back from holiday. So, having been away in Scotland last week, we had roast chicken today. Ginger realised recently that we haven’t cooked the same thing twice so far this year and we were worried that having [...]
Read More..>>Smoked Salmon Salad
Not all that exciting but very necessary after our week of potatoes and creamy sauces! This was dinner on Friday night and lunch on Saturday; usual salad with some hot smoked salmon. The salmon is very strongly flavoured but works well with the salad.
Read More..>>Scotland
We’ve just got back from a week in Scotland where we visited both Aberfeldy and Edinburgh. The main purpose of our trip was to relax and eat some good food, both of which we achieved.
One of our favourite places was the Courtyard, a bar/restaurant near to where we were staying in Aberfeldy. [...]
Macaroons
While shopping earlier I happened across these beautiful looking macaroons, I bought one of each colour for us to eat this evening (plus one to eat on the way home!) and after this evenings earlier disappointment I’m glad I did. The pink one was raspberry, the white vanilla and the brown coffee; we both [...]
Read More..>>Lemon Chicken
I found a recipe for this in this month’s Olive magazine, clipped it and added it to the pile of “Things To Cook Soon”. I’ve been at home today and asked Fred earlier what he felt like eating for dinner; I listed this among various lamb related dishes and also sausage casserole. This [...]
Read More..>>Geng Gari Gai
I ate this recently in Busaba Eathai and it was lovely so we thought we’d try making it ourselves. Fred made the paste on Wednesday night and we cooked it together last night.
This is the recipe from David Thompson’s “Thai Food”:
200g chicken thighs
4 medium potaotes (we used some new potatoes that were lurking in [...]
Vongole
This is one of my favourite pasta dishes but oddly, we’ve never cooked it. I’ve been thinking a lot about quick dishes lately as we both often get home late and this seemed ideal; and ideal it was - quick and tasty which is exactly what we were trying to achieve.
Fry some garlic and [...]